a new long range rocket ,possibly in October
having completed an upgrade at its main
satellite launch base,South Korea's Yonhap
news agency reported Wednesday,
Any such launch would almost certainly
be viewed by the international community
as a disguised ballistic missile test and result
in the imposition of fresh sanctions.
Quoting an unnamed government source
Yonhap cited credible intelligence "that
North Korea leader Kim Jong -Un had
ordered the launch of a satellite to mark
the 70"anniversary of the founding of the
North's ruling Workers ' Party on October
10 .
We think the North will carry out a
provocation around the 70th anniversary
the source said ,The South Korean Defence
Ministry declined to confirm or deny the
Yonhap report,
As to the construction of North Korea's long
range missile launching the North moves
very closely "a ministry spokesman said,
According to the Yonhap source ,North
Korea has completed work on an extended
67 metre gantry capable of handling a rocket
twice the sizeof the 30 metre Unha 3rocket
launched in December 2012.,
North Korea,which insisted the launch was
purely scientific in nature,responded three
months later by conducting its a third nuclear
test -the most powerful to date..
North Korea is banned under the UN security
Council resolution from carrying out any
launch using ballistic missile technology
although repeated small range missile test
have gone unpunished ,
The upgrading of facilities at the Sohae
launch centre have been closely monitored
by satellite imagery analysts at the US-Korea
at Johns Hopkin University.
AFP
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